- North American filmgoers hooked on the feeling of Guardians of the Galaxy (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Universal Pictures gets film rights for The Day The Crayons Quit (Deadline Hollywood)
- High price tag for Xbox One in China has consumers complaining (The Wall Street Journal)
- Lost Dr. Seuss stories get new life (BBC News)
- Why Millennials are breaking the money management mold (Forbes)
- A fresh take on Target: retailer taps PepsiCo exec as new CEO (The Wall Street Journal)
- Money woes in Hollywood? Marketing spend skyrockets to US$200 million a film (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Teaching the touchscreen generation to code (Wired)
- To prevent a Fox takeover, Time Warner looks to fix up Turner Broadcasting (The Wall Street Journal)
- Print your own bobbleheads and more at Amazon’s new 3D printing marketplace (The Los Angeles Times)
- Twitter mounts comeback as shares skyrocket (Financial Post)
- SEC investigating DreamWorks Animation (Variety)
- One pay-TV to rule them all: BSkyB to pay US$9 billion to add Rupert Murdoch’s Italian and German units to its pay-TV pot (The Globe and Mail)
- After reporting second quarter loss, Amazon sees more red ink ahead (The Wall Street Journel)
- Takeaways from Comic-Con: Disney Infinity 2.0 meets Guardians of the Galaxy (Forbes)
- Google buys game live-streaming firm Twitch for US$1 billion (VentureBeat)
- Facebook hauls in US$2.9 billion in 2nd quarter revenue thanks to mobile growth (Tech Crunch)
- With Spidey on hold, Sony’s banking on a superteam of villians to compete with Avengers and X-Men (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Head of YouTube music subscription service resigns (Variety)
- Will success at E3 boost Nintendo’s Wii U? (The Guardian)
- Netflix second quarter earnings more than double, but aggressive international expansion may result in Q3 profit decline (The Wall Street Journal)
- Google to stop calling apps ‘free’ if they have in-app purchases (Forbes)
- Barbie may need more than a career makeover (Financial Post)
- Comic-Con brings girls to the forefront (Variety)
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